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By Jen Deselms
Staff Reporter
A snowball fight late Wednesday night on the
UNL City Campus involving 200 to 500 residence
hall and Greek students resulted in more than
$500 in property damage and about 10 injuries.
No arrests were made.
Lt. Ken Cauble of UNL police patrol opera
tions said UNL police, arrived at the snowball
fight near 16th and Vine streets at 11 p.m. The
Lincoln police department arrived 15 minutes
later. Police blocked off streets in the 16th and
Vine area
UNL police Sgt. John Lustrea said police
blocked off roads to keep traffic away from the
fighting. He said students were throwing snow
balls at cars driving through campus. Police
were afraid the action could cause an accident.
Lt. Jon Briggs, Lincoln police duty commander,
estimated the crowd at 200 to 500 people. UNL
police estimated 300 to 500 students. Briggs said
Lincoln police provided seven officers and a dog
unit to help control the disturbance.
The officers used a microphone system to ask
people to leave. By 12:30 a.m. most of the people
had left and only 40 to 50 people remained,
Briggs said. He said the microphone was used
again, several times. Twenty students refused to
leave the area and began yelling at theffrcers,
he said.
Briggs said students ran away when officers
stepped out of their cars to talk to them.
Lustrea said he thinks more people would
have been injured if officers had used more
aggressive methods to control the snowball
fight. ,
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Lustrea said no arrests were made for the
vandalism because police weren't sure who did
the damage. Cauble estimated $500 in damages
to the Delta Upsilon fraternity house. Six win
dows were broken. He also said one window was
broken at Neihardt Residence Center.
Dr. Gerald Fleischli, University Health Center
medical director, said about nine people were
treated for injuries related to the snowball fight;
some were given stitches. He said none of the
injuries were serious, but they could have been
worse. He said it was fortunate that no one's eyes
were hurt.
Jim Kamm of Sigma Chi fraternity was walk
ing back to the house at 1 1:30 p.m. when he saw
the police cars and went to see what was going
on. He said things were calm when he arrived,
but then residence hall members regrouped and
the two sides threw at each other. He said the
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Jim Kamm, left, a Sigma Chi fraternity member, and Russ Luben, an Abel Hall
University Health Center on Thursday morning after a snowball fight.
fight was slowing down at about 12:15 a.m., and
then he got hit by a rock or a piece of ice. He said
he went to the health center and got four
stitches in his forehead. Kamm said he didn't
think the university police were in control of the
situation at all.
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Pete Gianakos, another member of the Sigma
Chi fraternity, had four stitches put in his head.
He said the fight already had started by the time
he arrived. When the fight moved dowji to the
Delta Upsilon house people started to throw
harder things like rocks and ice balls, and some
people threw beer bottles, he said. Gianakos
said he thinks ice balls caused most of the
injuries.
Lustrea said the UNL police have no written
policy on how to handle snowball fights, but they
try to make sure laws are enforced. He said when
fights become large and grow out of control they
ask for help from the Lincoln police.
Lustrea said UNL police had heard reports
Kenneth JareckeOaily Nebraskan
resident, wait for treatment at the
throughout the day that a big snowball fight
would happen about 10 p.m., but he didn't know
where these reports originated. He said police
responded to calls about sporadic snowball
fights throughout the afternoon and evening.
Fraternities and residence hall directors were
contacted to discourage students from a snow
ball fight, he said.
Lustrea said this was not the worst snowball
fight at UNL. He said a larger one occurred in
1981 when 17 to 20 people were arrested.
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ASUKT seeks stmidlent vote
on NU Board off Regents
By Jen Deselms
Staff Reporter
The ASUN Senate passed a bill urg
ing the Unicameral to adopt legislation
in its spring session that would give
student regents voting power on the NU
Board of Regents.
ASUN President Gerard Keating said
that as a student regent he fulfills all of
a regent's duties, participates actively
in meetings and, therefore, should have
the right to vote.
The bill says students deserve full
representation in regents' decisions,
and this will be achieved only if stu
dent regents have an official vote, The
bill says ASUN supports the research
and development needed to pass the
bill.
Keating said the bill now is being
researched and was presented to the
senate to see if senators showed inter
est in the proposal. He said the bill
would give the three student regents
one vote collectively with the majority
opinion controlling the vote. Keatig
said having one vote would give the
student regents from UNL, UNO and
UNMC a reason to work together to solve
student needs. He said giving one vote to
the student regents is fair, and he
thinks Nebraskans support the idea.
The idea of student regents voting
first emerged in the late 1970s, but this
is the first time action has been taken.
Keating said uniting, the student
bodies will strengthen the university.
Conflicts of interest
NU President Ronald Roskens said
he doesn't want members of the uni
versity community to vote on policy
boards such as the regents because it
creates potential conflicts of interest.
Regent Donald Fricke of Lincoln
said student regents are only on the
board for a year and sometimes it takes
more than a year for them to under
stand the board.
Please see ASUN on 6
